http://forums.flowingdata.com/ Strength in Numbers en Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:41:11 +0000 http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/the-humans-development#post-859 Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:03:22 +0000 weaintplastic 859@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>@adamnieman</p> <p>Thank you adam for your advices. I will keep working on the points you mentioned. By the way, the arrow on the info snippets is just for fast skipping through the snippet. </p> http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/the-humans-development#post-858 Mon, 13 Jul 2009 10:53:36 +0000 adamnieman 858@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>Hi Roland,</p> <p>Very nice! The strength of the site in my view is that it gives users an easy way to see the place a country in its global context before following a link to a list of projects. For a way of really exploring the data Gapminder (<a href="http://www.gapminder.org" rel="nofollow">http://www.gapminder.org</a>) would still be the tool of choice, but your site is doing a much simpler job, and the way the data are presented works very well for the job it sets out to do.</p> <p>Some things you might want to consider from a usability point of view:<br /> 1) the link with the GlobalGiving site isn't very clear. It might help if the link were re-labeled: "opportunities to make a difference in [country] ([n] projects)"<br /> 2) The rolling rollovers are confusing<br /> 3) the action of the arrow next to the scrolling info snippets isn't clear (i'd just lose it) </p> http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/the-humans-development#post-856 Mon, 13 Jul 2009 08:07:57 +0000 weaintplastic 856@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>Hi everybody,<br /> my name is Roland Loesslein (we ain‘t plastic) and I want to introduce to you my project I‘ve developed during the last semester course at the University of Applied Sciences Augsburg, Germany.</p> <p>Please visit <a href="http://humandevelopment.weaintplastic.com" rel="nofollow">http://humandevelopment.weaintplastic.com</a> and become a witness of a global grievance.</p> <p>Here‘s a short description about this project:</p> <p>The Human‘s Development‘s objective is to make important data, like the statistics about the different aspects of human development, readable for everyone. In most cases data like this is only available through table-based data sheets which are only understood by experts. My intention was to develop an interactive and dynamic information-graphic which uncovers a global grievance causing the mismatch of upper-, middle-, and lower-classes and raises the user‘s awareness for this issue. Even lay people should be able to absorb, process and understand the data so that they are willing to take action on projects offered by <a href="http://www.globalgiving.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.globalgiving.com</a>.

This project was designed and developed by me, Roland Loesslein (<a href="http://www.weaintplastic.com" rel="nofollow">weaintplastic.com</a>), at the University of Applied Sciences in Augsburg, Germany, where I attended the course of Prof. Michael Stoll (<a href="http://www.hs-augsburg.de/~mstoll" rel="nofollow">http://www.hs-augsburg.de/~mstoll</a>) in 2009. </p>